Pulse Of The Maggots · Slipknot

169 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-53, 73-79 and 137-143 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
PULSE OF THE MAGGOTS · BARS 47-48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 32 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 38 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-45.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AA
PART AE
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGAEPUAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pulse Of The Maggots?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pulse Of The Maggots hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pulse Of The Maggots?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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